Medium Author RSS Scraper

What this Actor scrapes

Medium publishes an official RSS feed for every author at medium.com/feed/@username. This Actor is a focused medium author scraper: you supply a list of usernames or feed URLs, we fetch each feed, and you get one row per article — title, link, body excerpt (HTML), tags, and published date. It is RSS-only by design: no paywalled HTML, no full-article bypass, no scraping of curated topic pages. That keeps it fast, honest about its scope, and safe from Medium's increasingly aggressive IP-level throttling. For medium articles export in bulk, simply pass a list of usernames and stream the dataset to CSV, JSON, or Excel in one click.

What we handle for you

• 🛡️ Browser fingerprint rotation — curl-cffi impersonates real Chrome / Firefox / Safari TLS handshakes so the target sees a browser, not Python.
• 🌐 Residential proxy rotation via Apify Proxy — fresh session and exit IP on every block.
• 🔁 Retries with exponential backoff on 408 / 429 / 5xx — up to 5 attempts per feed, Retry-After honoured.
• 🧱 Rate-limit-aware pacing — when Medium pushes back, we slow down and retry rather than letting you hit the ban wall.
• 🧊 Clean, typed dataset rows — Pydantic-validated, ISO-8601 timestamps, stable IDs, JSON / CSV / Excel export straight from the Apify Console.
• 💰 Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for results that hit your dataset. No data, no charge.

Use cases

• Author monitoring — watch a thought leader and pipe new posts to Slack or Notion via n8n.
• Translation pipeline — bulk-extract a series of articles for DeepL or an in-house translation workflow.
• Newsletter assembly — combine RSS feeds from 30 authors into one curated weekly digest without hand-rolling RSS parsing.
• Own-archive backfill — mirror your own Medium catalogue into Ghost, Astro, or Hashnode in minutes.

Input

Paste this into the Apify Console, or send it as the run input over the API. Proxy settings are on by default; you rarely need to touch them.

{
  "usernames": [
    "@Medium"
  ],
  "maxArticlesPerUser": 3,
  "includeContent": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Output

One row per result, schema-validated before it is written. Export JSON, CSV, Excel or XML from the run, or read it over the API.

usernamearticle_idtitlelinkauthorcontent_htmlcategoriespublishedscraped_at

{
  "username": "@Medium",
  "article_id": "abc123def456",
  "title": "What's new at Medium",
  "link": "https://medium.com/@Medium/whats-new-1abc",
  "author": "Medium",
  "content_html": null,
  "categories": [
    "medium",
    "writing"
  ],
  "published": "2026-04-15T20:00:00+00:00",
  "scraped_at": "2026-06-01T09:00:00+00:00"
}

Pricing

You pay only for results that land. Cap any run with maxTotalChargeUsd. See pricing & billing for worked examples.